Hard time eating back calories burned

The reality is you need to find a way to eat more. With such an extreme calorie deficit and so much cardio, you are burning a lot of muscle, which I assume you would rather not do. I agree with the other poster who suggested estimating your calories burned early in the day and work on eating the calories you need throughout the day so you're not left with a huge amount at the end of the day. If you truly are finding this too difficult, ease up on the exercise. However, I would recommend eating healthy, calorie dense foods and continuing the exercise. Not to be rude, but I think most of us are here because we found ourselves eating too much, so I can't imagine it's that hard to eat enough. Like other suggested, try snacking on nuts, whole milk, cheese, avocados, nut butters, use olive oil, full fat dairy products and salad dressings and you should be fine.

Eat more: Almonds, almond butter, peanuts, chia seeds, how about some protein shakes post workout?

If you know you are going to burn that much, add something to each Meal/snack.
Add 100-200 and 100 to snacks. Be smart and eat complex carbs and protein.... Raw nuts/un salted are a quick way to get calories/ protein and healthy fats..... But limit yourself on them....

I think everyone in the thread agrees.... Eat.....

Keep up the great work!

Unfortunately, I dont like eggs at all! But last night I did a bad thing and went out to get a chicken fried steak scramble (no eggs) Im pretty sure I ate back all of my calories :} Its just hard for me to eat them all back usually. I dont want to lose weight the unhealthy way so Im trying to figure this out!! I honestly dont feel that hungry at all and I dont want to stuff myself!!

Going out and killing someone is doing a bad thing. Cheating on your husband is doing a bad thing. Eating chicken fried steak is not doing a bad thing. Stop looking at food as "good" or "bad". Most of the time, when someone can't get their head around eating enough calories, it's because they are being overly-restrictive with their diet. No one food will make you fat or stop you losing weight. Even lard.

I have a question! I am having a hard time eating back the calories I burn. During the day I usually eat about 800 calories and I burn off about 600+. I know your sposed to be eating back the calories but yesterday with my food and exercise I had alomst 1000 calories to eat back. Any suggestions??? I am NOT trying to eat a low amout of calories and or exercise a lot but its getting confusing/hard lol

You are not supposed to only eat when you are hungry, that is your body telling you that you have failed to give it the nutrients it needs not an advance warning that it is meal time. Nobody healthy can be full on 800 calories spread out over four to six meals, you are either not eating frequently enough or have stuffed your body's satiety signals by dodgy past dieting.

This is not all about calories, your body needs a huge range of nutrients to be healthy, and this is substantially increased by exercise. It's just not possible to get anything like them all on 800 calories so you need to focus on fuelling and nourishing your body as any athlete would. Spread your days calories and macros out over four to six meals, start counting number of servings and eat - nine servings of fruit and veggies, three servings of reduced fat dairy, protein little and often all day, oily fish regularly, mineral and fibre rich foods little and often.

I honestly don't understand people who say things like this. I mean, honestly, are you not hungry? If I do a 60 minute workout, I'm ready for a big meal!

I don't know why you're only eating about 800 calories. You should not be eating less than 1200. If you burn off 600, then you'll have only 600 to eat back. If you break your meals up into 3 meals + snacks, with 400 calorie lunches and dinners, you should always be able to get to 1200. How and when you eat is just as important as what you eat and what your calories are. It's not just about the number.

As others have said, if you know you're working out, you need to buff up each meal and each snack.. eat healthy fats (olive oil, nuts), good carbs, protein, etc..

Add high calorie but healthy foods to your diet.
When I was used to a 1200 calorie diet, then upped my calories..
I changed from plain Greek yogurt to fruited Greek Yogurt.
Added protein to my salad at lunch.
Nuts to my afternoon fruit snack.
It's very doable.... obviously we all know how to eat unhealthy- thats why the majority of us got here....
but to add calories in healthy ways can be challenging until you educate yourself on what are higher calorie healthy foods.

When I get to end of day and still have calories left, I will have a treat if it fits into my calories for the day- its not about deprivation as that will be self sabotage in the long run... its about fitting your lifestyle into your calorie limit and fitting your calorie limit into your lifestyle......

I think you may be overestimating your exercise cals (or MFP is) based on what you mentioned regarding your workouts. While I do not have one, as others have mentioned HR Monitors will give you a better/more accurate calculation of calories burned during your cardio workouts. Once you have a more accurate count of calories burned, I would guess that you woudl have less calories left to consume and here are some higher calorie items that are good for you (some repeated from others):

-Almonds (I like the cocoa roasted from emerald or blue diamond) - 160 cal per serving
-Triscuits (120 cals for 6) with peanut or almond butter (190 cals for 2 tbls) - 330 cal per snack/serving
-Protein Shake (I use gold standard whey-french vanilla creme - 120 cals a scoop) with almond milk (30 cals) - 150 cals a shake
-Avocados are good on their own, on any sand or salad or with just a sprinkle of salt - 250 cals for a whole one
-Traditional Greek Yogurt 160-180 cals

Adding a couple of higher calorie healthy snacks or higher calorie additions to each meal will likely get you closer to your goal and feed your body better.

Good Luck!